Jack Ma

Jack Ma is a Chinese entrepreneur, one of the world’s most powerful and wealthiest people, founder of Alibaba Group, a multinational of technology businesses, including Alibaba, Taobao and Alipay – three of China’s leading e-commerce companies.

A former English teacher, Jack Ma founded Alibaba in 1999 together with a group of 18 friends, as a China-based B2B marketplace site.

Alibaba’s 2014 IPO in New York set a record as the world’s biggest public stock offering, raising $25 billion.